On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Philip Tellis wrote:
->On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
->
->> When I send email using pine, the message instead of putting immediately in
->
->The problem is that clients like pine and mutt do not use smtp to send
->mail. Instead they write directly to sendmail, creating a new sendmail
->process (rather than a thread of the sendmail daemon) for each mail to be
->sent.
->This new process does not look at the sendmail.cf file, but takes all
->parameters from the command line.
So, cant I change the command pine or mutt uses.
->
->> the mq it looks up for dns resolution delaying the sending process sometimes
->> by few minutes when the internet connection is not live. I have already set
->> nodns, and also using service.switch file. Still I am not able to solve the
If I can make pine invocation of sendmail read sendmail.cf, then it should
work.
->Set your own machine as the first dns server. Your real dns server will
->be the secondary dns. It works in some cases.
I have already tried this, this seems to be not working. Earlier when I had
the debian machine, I have avoided these problems by using service.switch
file. Presently I dont know why it is not working.
Nagarjuna
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